We Happy Few, We Band of Brothers Quiz

Answer: The Everly Brothers

Don and Phil Everly were bitten by the singing bug at a young age. As children, they performed with their parents as The Everly Family on their father's radio show in Iowa. The pair started writing songs as teenagers, and after Don graduated high school they moved to Nashville to pursue their musical dreams. Known for their close vocal harmonies and signature black steel-string guitars, the duo had a string of country and pop hits beginning with 1957's "Bye Bye Love". Disagreements between the brothers and problems with drug addiction came to a head in the summer of 1973, when Don showed up drunk at a concert in California, prompting Phil to throw down his guitar and leave in the middle of the second set. "The tension between us existed from day one, from birth, and will go on forever," Phil explained to "Rolling Stone" in 1986. Don and Phil didn't really speak to each other for 10 years, until they put aside their differences to stage a comeback in 1983 and record several successful reunion albums.

The duo have inspired performers as diverse as Bob Dylan, Simon & Garfunkel and The Beatles, who called themselves "The English Everly Brothers" and even fashioned the harmonies for "Please Please Me" after "Cathy's Clown". As Paul Simon recalled in "Rolling Stone" in 2004, "The Everly Brothers' impact exceeds even their fame. When Artie and I were kids we got our rock 'n' roll chops from the Everlys." The Everly Brothers were one of the first inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986 and were inducted in the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2001.

Answer: The Beach Boys

The Beach Boys had their greatest success in the 1960s with over 20 U.S. Top 40 singles, including three Number One hits with "I Get Around", "Help Me, Rhonda" and "Good Vibrations". Chief songwriter Brian Wilson kept taking their compositions to new heights, drawing inspiration from '60s teen culture and the professional rivalry with British invasion acts like The Beatles, whose "Rubber Soul" LP drove him to push the musical envelope with "Pet Sounds". "It was a challenge to me," Brian later explained. "It didn't make me want to copy them, but to be as good as them." Paul McCartney would subsequently return the favor by citing "Pet Sounds" as a chief influence on "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", and naming "God Only Knows" as one of his favorite songs of all-time.

The band's popularity began to wane in the '70s amidst disagreements over the group's direction and Brian's struggles with drug use and mental health issues. Tragedy struck when Dennis drowned in 1983 and Carl succumbed to cancer in 1998, leaving Brian the only surviving Wilson brother. "Not every day, but about once every two weeks I will think about them," Brian said in a 2004 interview. In 2012, the remaining members reunited for a tour to mark the band's 50th anniversary and a new record "That's Why God Made the Radio", which debuted at Number Three on the Billboard 200.

Answer: The Jackson Five

The Jackson Five had limited success in the late '60s until they signed with Motown and turned into an overnight pop phenomenon. With the release of the singles "I Want You Back", "ABC", "The Love You Save" and "I'll Be There" over three albums in quick succession, they became the first group to have their first four singles top the U.S. charts. Their combination of youth and more traditional vocal harmonies led people to describe their sound as "bubblegum soul", but over time the group's sound matured along with the brothers. Motown began grooming both Jermaine and Michael for solo careers, and when the group moved to Epic Records Jermaine left the band and was replaced by brother Randy. Michael stayed with the group through his own burgeoning popularity, but eventually left in December 1984 following the enormous success of his "Off the Wall" and "Thriller" albums. Marlon followed suit a few months later. After the remaining brothers' next album as a quartet was poorly received, they embarked on their own solo careers.

A 2001 reunion saw all six brothers come together for the first time in years for two anniversary performances at Madison Square Garden. In 2009, Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, Marlon began filming a TV reality special to document their preparations for a planned upcoming anniversary album and tour. Following Michael's sudden death in June that year, "The Jack5ons: A Family Dynasty" was reworked into a six-part series.

Answer: Creedence Clearwater Revival

Creedence Clearwater Revival achieved major success in the late '60s and early '70s with a string of albums and Top 10 hits, including "Susie Q", "Proud Mary", "Bad Moon Rising", "Green River", "Down on the Corner", "Fortunate Son", "Travellin' Band", "Who'll Stop the Rain", "Lookin' Out My Back Door" and "Have You Ever Seen the Rain?". The band set a record as the artist with the most singles to peak at Number Two on the Billboard Hot 100 chart without ever having a Number One hit. Disagreements over John Fogerty's control of the band led to older brother Tom's departure after recording the band's sixth album. "It's an unnatural situation having your younger brother lead the group you're in," Tom once explained, blaming John for never acknowledging his contributions to the band's success. "John and I used to collaborate a lot in the beginning," Tom told an interviewer. "It got to be pretty much a one-man train, and the thing that really started to bug me was that everyone was giving John credit for everything, as if we were just standing in the shadows or something." The band continued as a trio, but broke up after recording one more album, the poorly-received "Mardi Gras" (1972).

"I have very confused feelings for my brother because there was a time when things were happy," John Fogerty told "The Guardian" in 2000. "The best I can say in Tom's case is he was the older brother and the younger brother had a lot more talent, therefore he was jealous even to a greater degree than the other two in Creedence Clearwater Revival." Tom Fogerty died in 1990 at the age of 48, bringing an end to over 20 years of sibling rivalry.

Answer: The Bee Gees

The Bee Gees achieved early success in the late '60s and early '70s with songs like "Words", "I've Got to Get a Message to You", "I Started a Joke" and "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart", and began to embrace the fledgling disco movement in the mid '70s with songs like "Jive Talkin'", "Nights on Broadway" and "You Should Be Dancing". Their next two albums cemented the Bee Gees' place in musical history, when the soundtrack for "Saturday Night Fever" (1977) and "Spirits Having Flown" (1979) generated six consecutive U.S. Number One singles with "How Deep Is Your Love", "Stayin' Alive", "Night Fever", "Too Much Heaven", "Tragedy" and "Love You Inside Out". The 1980s saw a backlash against disco music and a corresponding decline in popularity for the Bee Gees' music, although they remained active through collaborations with artists like Barbra Streisand, Dionne Warwick, Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton, Diana Ross, and younger brother Andy Gibb, and achieved some success on the Adult Contemporary charts.

After losing Maurice to a heart attack in 2003 and Robin to cancer in 2012, Barry Gibb as the sole surviving Bee Gee fell into a period of depression. As he explained in an interview, "You see, it wasn't just the loss of my brothers, it was the fact we didn't really get on, and so I've lost all of my brothers without being friends with them." Barry returned to the stage in late 2013 at the urging of his wife, launching his Mythology Tour with his son, Stephen, and Maurice's daughter, Samantha. The tour has helped him cope with his loss. "There were times when I'd felt that nothing was worthwhile anymore," Barry said in an interview. "Now it has begun to feel like the sun has finally come out again."

Answer: The Kinks

The Kinks had 18 Top 40 singles in the UK in the 1960s, including their three chart toppers "You Really Got Me", "Tired of Waiting for You" and "Sunny Afternoon", and have been credited for influencing acts as diverse as The Clash, The Pretenders, Van Halen, Oasis and Blur. The band was started in 1964 by brothers Ray and Dave Davies, who always had a difficult relationship. "Our problems stem from our childhood. Ray was, for so long, the only boy," Dave once explained, referring to their six older sisters. "Then I arrive and take all his limelight away from him. That must have quite a profound effect." The brothers were the group's mainstay for over 30 years, but declining popularity, personnel changes, and tensions between the siblings eventually led to the band's split in 1996. "Nothing good ever happened without a fight of some kind," Dave once said. "As the years wore on, the struggles became greater, the battles more brutal, the mind games more intense, weirder, and the lows much lower."

Ray once described Dave as "absolutely insufferable, totally intolerable", while Dave once described his brother as "vain, egocentric, narcissistic", before adding, "I won't have anybody call him that except me, because I love him to death." When asked in 2011 about the possibility of a Kinks reunion, Dave told a journalist, "I just can't stand to be with him. About an hour with Ray's my limit, so it would be a very short reunion." Still, hope for Kinks fans came in December 2015 when Ray joined his brother on stage for the first time in almost 20 years at Dave's concert at London's Islington Assembly Hall to give an impromptu performance of "You Really Got Me".

Answer: Dire Straits

Dire Straits were formed in London in 1977 by brothers Mark and David Knopfler, who were joined by their friends, John Illsley and Pick Withers. A local DJ began playing their demo on his radio show, which led to record deals with Vertigo in the UK and Warner Brothers in the U.S., and an invitation to open for Talking Heads on their 1978 tour. Their self-titled debut album spawned the Top Ten hit "Sultans of Swing", and their sophomore release the following year was also well-received. Tensions between the brothers came to a head during the recording of the band's third album, and David quit the band to pursue a solo career over what he described as "strained relations" with his older brother, Mark.

"Mark and I had a different vision of what we were up to. I was building a democracy and Mark was making an autocracy. Everything put a strain on us," David once explained. "I didn't see myself spending the rest of my life being a strummer for someone else's dreams." John Illsley provided a slightly different perspective. "David was under a lot of strain," he explained. "Mark felt very responsible for David and didn't quite know what to do. But once 'Making Movies' was out and David had left, it seemed to lift a tremendous strain. Mark felt very freed." Dire Straits would go on to have its biggest success with 1985's "Brothers in Arms", which spawned the hit singles "So Far Away", "Money For Nothing", "Brothers in Arms" and "Walk of Life".

Answer: Oasis

Oasis were one of Britain's biggest musical acts in the 1990s, but the infighting and childish antics between brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher made them an almost permanent fixture in the British tabloids, and constantly threatened to tear the band apart. The brothers' numerous disagreements were marked by physical altercations (notably involving a tambourine onstage and a cricket bat during a recording session), insult-laden interviews, and even heckling under the influence. Noel once described his brother in an interview as "rude, arrogant, intimidating and lazy", and this was when times were good.

Things came to a head on August 28, 2009, when the band cancelled their appearance at the Rock en Seine festival in Paris over "an altercation within the band". Later that evening Noel announced that he was leaving the band, stating that he "simply could not go on working with Liam a day longer". In a 2011 press conference, Noel eventually provided a detailed explanation for why he left the band. Tensions between the brothers were already high after Liam canceled an appearance at the V Festival earlier that week. The night of the Paris show, Liam confronted his brother in his dressing room over a disagreement they were having about Liam advertising his clothing line in the Oasis tour program. A guitar was reportedly destroyed and fruit was thrown. That was the last straw for Noel, who quit the band to pursue a solo career in the form of Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds. In typical fashion, Liam disagreed with his brother's account, and even commenced an action for libel against him (the case was withdrawn after Noel apologized). Liam and the remaining members of Oasis continued performing for a few years as Beady Eye.

Answer: The Jonas Brothers

The Jonas Brothers formed in 2005 and began touring with various musical acts over the next two years while working on their first album. After switching labels and releasing a second album, the band began making appearances on the Disney Channel program "Hannah Montana", which led to their own reality series and a starring role with Demi Lovato in the Disney Channel movie "Camp Rock". A sold-out North American tour to promote their third album followed, which spawned a live concert film. The trio remained busy in 2009 and 2010 with a fourth studio album, a concert tour, their own Disney Channel series and the TV movie sequel "Camp Rock 2", before going on a two-year hiatus to explore solo projects. The band came back together in 2012 for a reunion concert and announced a world tour the following year to promote what was to be their fifth studio album, but surprised fans by canceling the concert just days before it was scheduled to start.

Nick would later explain that the breakup was "the best thing that ever happened to us" as it enabled the brothers to "just be a family". The discussion to split up the band was prompted by Nick, who felt that things had not been working for some time. "There were tears and yelling from everybody," Nick later recounted, with Kevin adding, "It was the most real, the most intense conversation that we've had in our lives together." In the end, the brothers decided that the best thing to do was to split up the band, and announced the breakup officially on October 29, 2013. "We're choosing our family because it was becoming toxic," Kevin would later explain, with Nick adding, "Prioritizing our family is really important to us." Nick Jonas went on to combine a successful solo music career with acting, with starring roles in numerous films and TV shows. Joe Jonas formed a band called DNCE, and Kevin Jonas went into real estate.

Answer: Kings of Leon

Kings of Leon had their humble beginnings in Nashville, Tennessee, which eldest brother Nathan attributed to "boredom" and "stupidity". Caleb and Nathan were the first to be signed by RCA, and they quickly recruited their teenaged brother and cousin to round out the band. "We kidnapped our cousin from Mississippi, told his mom he was coming for the week and just never let him go home," Nathan explained. The group achieved early success in the UK and Europe before hitting it big in their native U.S.A. with their fourth studio album, "Only by the Night". The first single off that album, "Sex on Fire", won the Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal, and the album's second single, "Use Somebody", won the Grammy Awards for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal, Best Rock Song and Record of the Year.

The excesses of the rock 'n' roll lifestyle have taken its toll on the band, who have had their share of alcohol-fueled episodes. One incident in 2007 saw Nathan and Caleb getting into a drunken fight that ended with Nathan dislocating Caleb's shoulder, breaking a $7,000 mirror, and stabbing Caleb's mattress and pillow with a kitchen knife. The band famously canceled the rest of their U.S. tour in 2011 after Caleb left the stage and never came back. After the show, Jared tweeted, "There are internal sicknesses and problems that have needed to be addressed." The band opted to go on hiatus, but came back in September 2013 with their sixth studio album, "Mechanical Bull", which peaked at Number Two on the Billboard 200 and earned the band a Grammy nomination for Best Rock Album. "If the band even stopped, we're still a family and would see each other," Nathan told "Rolling Stone" on the eve of the album's release. "Taking that break allowed us to fall back in love with what we get to do for a living. We did what we've known to do for 12 years, which was pick up our instruments and play." The band released their seventh album "WALLS (We Are Like Love Songs)" in October 2016, which debuted at the top of the Billboard 200.